Attack on Romeo and Juliet

Chapter Seven

~Eren's House~

"This is our day off, why do we have to bother rehearsing?" Eren groaned while face down on the floor of his living room.

Marco sat on the couch in the living room, looking up from his script. "Eren, we have to at least see if most of us are memorized. The show IS a few weeks away. Miss Hanji expects us memorized fully by the end of next week!" 

"That's dumb." Eren lifted his head slightly, "The scripts are for our lines, and I'm sure I'll do just fine without memorizing this soon."

Marco sighed, "Just promise me that you'll be memorized before the tech rehearsals."

"Fine, fine, I promise that I'll be memorized by the tech rehearsals."

The freckled boy smiled. "Good, now let's get started. Does anyone have a particular scene they want to do?"

Annie, who was sitting by the window, slowly glanced over her shoulder. "Doesn't matter to me." She said, going back to gazing out at the green grass and blue skies outside.

"O-Okay, what about you Eren? Do you have a scene you want to go over at all?"

"Eh, I don't have many scenes. One in the beginning, one during the party, and then I die."

"Oh, I know which one you're talking about!" Marco said, skimming through his script. "Now, let's see...Aha! Here it is! Act One Scene Five! Now, we need someone to read for Capulet..."

"Hey Mikasa!" Eren yelled into the other room.

"What is it Eren? I'm with Titan! Do you need something?" Mikasa asked from the other room. Titan was Eren's dog. 

"Would you help us with something for the play? We need someone to read the extra parts."

"Sure! I'll be right in!" 

A few seconds later, Mikasa entered the room. "Sorry about that. I was playing with Titan, since Aunt Carla's making lunch." She sat down next to Eren. "So which parts am I reading for again?"

Marco smiled to the raven-haired girl. "We need you to read for Capulet." 

"Alright," Mikasa said, turning to her adoptive brother. "Eren, can you share your script with me?"

Eren sat up and nodded, "Sure, I start us off." He fixed his posture and began,

"This, by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave come hither, cover'd with an antic face, to fleer and scorn at our solemnity? Now, by the stock and honour of my kin, to strike him dead, I hold it not a sin."

Mikasa wasn't that familiar with Shakespeare's way of writing, but she tried her best.
"Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?"

Eren scowled attempting to get into character,
"Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe, a villain that is hither come in spite, to scorn at our solemnity this night."

Mikasa glanced over at Eren surprised before she continued with the next line,
"Young Romeo is it?"

 Titan walked into the room just as Eren said his next line and pointed at the creature,

"'Tis he, that villain Romeo."

Titan just barked softly and the chubby German Shepard trotted his way over to Eren, giving his face a friendly lick. Eren chuckled, wiping his cheek with his sleeve. "Good boy, now let me practice."

Mikasa smiled towards Eren, and leaned over to pat Titan's head gently as she spoke the next lines.

"Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone; He bears him like a portly gentleman; and, to say truth, Verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth: I would not for the wealth of all the town here in my house do him disparagement: Therefore be patient, take no note of him: It is my will, the which if thou respect, show a fair presence and put off these frowns, and ill-beseeming semblance for a feast."